The whole stacking argument is, in my opinion, a little silly. Why do we need stacking? Because it allows you to do exposure bracketing to get better dynamic r

The whole stacking argument is, in my opinion, a little silly. Why do we need stacking? Because it allows you to do exposure bracketing to get better dynamic range. Now the question is, in a high end mirrorless like, say an a7r4, you get something like 12-14 stops of dynamic range (expressing this as a number is kind of ambiguous). Do you really need one or two stops of dynamic range with bracketing? I don't think so. If you expose smartly you can absolutely make use of the incredible dynamic range. The only problem I see is on iPhone, it shoots in HEIC which is a great format because it lets you encode much higher dynamic range (and the software support is there to display it correctly). Check out a recent iPhone and take a picture with the sun and something medium-dark and you'll see that the sun is eye searingly bright whereas the medium-dark subject is still visible. I wish there was a flow that lets me produce HEIC images (AFAIK even Photoshop doesn't allow HDR workflows). A lot of the pro imaging workflow is only "aware" of printed end results and low-end digital images like Instagram or JPEG web publishing. Very frustrating in my opinion.